Pitch the pager or face the consequences While smartphones have become the manner of communication for most professionals, pagers are still used in many professions as the standard mode of communication. This choice for pagers comes with significant consequences and indeed many suggest the need for finding pager alternatives in healthcare. For example, pagers are not a secure method for communicating as pager messages are unencrypted. They leak information. Pager communications can also be hijacked. What is surprising is that while pagers have many significant reliability issues associated with them, many doctor and healthcare organizations continue to use them rather than seek a pager alternative. Stickiness While the overall popularity of pagers has been in decline over the past several years (see Google trends graph), pagers still maintain stickiness in the healthcare industry. In part this reason is historical as pagers have been used to alert doctors since the 1950s and […] Read more »

OnPage Corporation is the Secure Messaging/Critical Alerts Leader: Learn More… Never Miss Critical Stock Price Alerts with OnPage! OnPage can integrate with any sensor or application that sends a notification. The OnPage system is an ideal deployment for IoT (Internet of Things) devices. When you cannot afford to miss time-sensitive notifications, simply route them via OnPage. The service is NOT free, but if priority messaging is mission critical for your business, it will pay for itself quickly. An OnPage for Android Creative Use Story. Also Works on iPhone & Blackberry. G.S. is one of our most prolific customers when it comes to figuring out new and creative uses for OnPage. What follows is his latest success story. *** OnPage works great! I just got a near Real-Time stock price alert for BBRY. With OnPage, (and a little tinkering with the IFTTT app) I never miss a big move in stock […] Read more »

The Smartphone Revolution is Here! Gone are Camcorders, Pagers and Remotes. Mpeg players, Pagers, and calculators have all been swept into the dustbin of technology and replaced by your smartphone. Today, smartphones can do just about everything these icons from yesteryear could, and much, much more. So, lighten your load. There’s no need to carry around all your old devices anymore — they all can be consolodated into one device, your smartphone. (Violins and Trumpets) Let’s spend a minute reminiscing and shedding a tear for technology devices gone bye, and herald in “The Age of the Smartphone”. The Top-11 Technology Devices Obsolesced By Smartphones Rating Scale: **** (extremley obsolete) *** (very obsolete) ** (quite obsolete) * (obsolete) . Pagers These buzzing-vibrating little devils — I found them annoying — were state of the art in their day, but are now vintage technology. The issue with Pagers is that once you sent […] Read more »

OnPage announced today that UltraRAD selected OnPage for their after-hours critical customer support team. OnPage will ensure that UltraRAD can be immediately reached by its customers requiring emergency support, while at the same time, enable UltraRAD to reliably and securely communicate with and dispatch its technicians as quickly as possible. As a leading medical imaging company, UltraRAD provides vendor-neutral software solutions and cloud-based services to the healthcare industry. UltraRAD specializes in software systems for radiologists, teleradiology service providers, private practices, imaging centers, and hospitals. Any software failure at a customer’s site must be addressed with the utmost urgency as an entire radiology practice can come to a halt. Prior to switching to OnPage, UltraRAD used a hosted VOIP phone system for their messaging needs, but experienced a number of reliability issues. OnPage enabled UltraRAD’s to track all of their incoming and outgoing messages, all in a secure, HIPAA-compliant manner. […] Read more »

Presenting the world’s most advanced web dashboard for group or individual paging, monitoring response, analyzing and reporting. Previously named Web Management Console, the OnPage Control System allows you to manage all your company’s communications easily and reliably. The system is unbelievably user friendly and intuitive, totally secure, and it allows you to be in complete control under all circumstances. With The OnPage Control System You Can: Send Messages from the office manager desktop and follow up with further instructions upon response Send as many messages as you need in seconds and monitor their status in real time Manage contact information for multiple users and groups Create users in a unified way for easy access Page an individual, group or escalation group Define escalation groups to a list of individuals to ensure prompt response Sync all OnPage contacts to all users’ devices Survey all messages within your organization Comply With HIPAA […] Read more »

Are you an IT Administrator staring at your phone’s screen all day waiting for an email or text? Have you ever missed a CRITICAL email or text because it didn’t grab your attention? Using email and SMS for network alerts has been a widely used practice since the early 90’s, but is not an effective and efficient way of receiving these kinds of CRITICAL alerts. Alert notifications are a crucial part of your system monitoring. Missing even one single email or text can result in downtime which can also result in revenue loss, reputation damage, and potential customer defections. System monitoring without a noticeable alert is like getting a Pizza delivered to your building but not knowing when, so unless you sit there by the lobby waiting for that Pizza, by the time you find the Pizza it’s stale and cold. OnPage helps to eliminate this process so that you can receive your […] Read more »

September 23rd was the final deadline for vendors that provide services to HIPAA-covered plans known in HIPAA parlance as “business associates” – the new regulations do introduce fundamental change. Under the new regulations, business associates are required, for the first time, to comply with the HIPAA Security Rule, many provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and are subject to direct enforcement action by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). OnPage, a virtual two-way pager application for iPhone, Android & Blackberry is a secure, and fully HIPAA compliant solution for anyone in the healthcare industry. If you are currently using non HIPAA Compliant solutions for your critical messages, you can turn to OnPage and rest easy knowing you are in full HIPAA compliance. OnPage-full HIPAA compliance messaging solution Secure Encrypted Communication- Encrypted from end to end. Archiving ability- Archive all of your messages for HIPAA security standards Remote Wipe Ability- Remotely wipe all of your users […] Read more »

The Daily App Show recently reviewed the OnPage application with a video demonstration. The video walks you through the OnPage’s user interface, message history and message status. The reviewer also showcases OnPage’s full audit trail by snoozing an incoming message, and then going into that message’s audit trail to show the lag between sent, delivered and the time stamp of when it was actually read. Click to see the entire review Please follow and like us: Read more »

The iPhone App Review site recently reviewed OnPage for its secure, pager replacement application. Reviewed by Philip Chan, OnPage was given an overall rating of 4.5/5 stars! The application was rated on a number of features including, Features, Appearance & Layout and Value. Chan goes on to express ..”For those who frequently use a paging system and finding themselves forgetting to bring both their pager and their cellular device with them on the go would find this app extremely helpful since the app consolidates the paging function on to a single device. Even for those who don’t consider themselves the forgetful type, the added security blanket of never missing a significant message doesn’t hurt. With the free trial for you to fiddle around with, the only thing you are missing out on is not having to worry about peace of mind.” To Read the Entire App Review Click Here. Please follow […] Read more »

OnPage recently announced the release of an enhanced version of the OnPage pager application for iPhone, Android and Blackberry devices. These new features will provide users with strengthened security and reliability for their mobile communication needs. The new release will also provide greater flexibility and customization capabilities to meet the specific needs of its customers. One of these new features is the ability for organizations to forward their messages onto other OnPage users or groups. The message forwarding feature will allow OnPage users to easily forward messages they receive to another OnPage user or group in case they are unavailable to respond, or someone else is more suitable to respond to the message. This ultimately allows for messages to get to the right person at the right time, without the sender wasting time identifying and resending the message to that person. To learn more about the new features of the […] Read more »

OnPage recently announced the release of an enhanced version of the OnPage pager application for iPhone, Android and Blackberry devices. These new features will provide users with strengthened security and reliability for their mobile communication needs. The new release will also provide greater flexibility and customization capabilities to meet the specific needs of its customers. One of these new features is the ability for organizations to do a Contact Sync. The Contact Sync feature will allow OnPage administrators the ability to sync all the organization’s contacts with the user’s smartphone instantly. Having all the OnPage contacts at the fingertips of the user will make sending messages to other OnPage users, easier, error-free and faster, saving valuable time and resources. To learn more about the new features of the OnPage app click here. Please follow and like us: Read more »

To Read The Entire Press Release Click Here Onset Technology, creator of the OnPage Pager Replacement and Priority Messaging Application, releases new version with security and efficiency enhancing features such as Remote Wipe, Contact Sync, Message Forwarding and New Ringtones OnPage announced today the release of an enhanced version of the OnPage pager application for the iPhone, Android and Blackberry devices. New features will provide users with strengthened security and reliability for their mobile communication needs. The new release will also provide greater flexibility and customization capabilities to meet the specific needs of its customers. One of the top ten issues hospitals are facing during 2013 is Mobile Communication Security. According to the PwC Health Research Institute, 69% of consumers surveyed said they were concerned about the privacy of their medical information if providers accessed it through mobile devices. “The rising concern over hospital privacy and security is due to […] Read more »

With the new release of the OnPage Application now on the market, OnPage users will now get to experience enhanced features of the application. One of these new features is the ability to do a remote wipe of the application. The ability to do a remote wipe of the OnPage application adds an additional layer of security to OnPage’s already secure, compliant mobile application. The OnPage service is encrypted from end to end, adheres to the archiving requirements and now has a remote wipe feature that will delete all of the user’s contacts and messages within the app and log the user out of the application. The remote wipe feature allows organizations’ administrators to effectively prevent access to sensitive information when a device is lost, missing or stolen. To Read the Rest of the Press Release and Learn About Other New Features Click Here Please follow and like us: Read more »

To Read The Entire Press Release Click Here A leading Hematology/Oncology practice in Indiana can now communicate faster and more efficiently with OnPage’ secure, HIPAA compliant application. Onset Technology, creator of OnPage Mission Critical Messaging and Pager Application for Android, iPhone and Blackberry, announced today that Michiana Hematology Oncology’s Advanced Centers for Cancer Care selected OnPage. Michiana’s physicians and staff are now relying on OnPage for secure, HIPAA-compliant communication using smartphones, therefore eliminating the need to carry additional paging devices. By upgrading to OnPage, not only has paging reliability greatly increased, but Michiana’s staff is always informed as to the status of each message, including automatic notification when a message is received and when it is actually read and responded to. Michiana Hematology Oncology’s Advanced Centers for Cancer Care represent the largest team of board- certified medical, radiation and gynecological oncologists in northern Indiana. Michiana has distinguished itself by its […] Read more »

OnPage announced today that Michiana Hematology Oncology’s Advanced Centers for Cancer Care selected OnPage for their priority messaging. Michiana’s physicians and staff are now relying on OnPage for secure, HIPAA-compliant communication using smartphones, therefore eliminating the need to carry additional paging devices. By upgrading to OnPage, not only has paging reliability greatly increased, but Michiana’s staff is always informed as to the status of each message, including automatic notification when a message is received and when it is actually read and responded to. Michiana Hematology Oncology’s Advanced Centers for Cancer Care represent the largest team of board- certified medical, radiation and gynecological oncologists in northern Indiana. Michiana has distinguished itself by its leadership in medical technology, treatment options, clinical research, and patient care. With locations in Crown Point, Elkhart, Mishawaka, Plymouth/South Bend and Westville, patients receive the most sophisticated and trusted cancer care available in the region. Now with the […] Read more »

Onset Technology, creator of OnPage pager replacement for Android, iPhone and Blackberry, announced today that SJH Cardiology Associates selected OnPage for dependable HIPAA compliant, encrypted messaging among their MDs and Staff, using a variety of Smartphones. OnPage provides SJH reliable and secure communication that protects patient information, and automatically notifies the sender when the message was delivered and when it was actually read. Located in Central New York, SJH Cardiology Associates specializes in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular disease. SJH Cardiology Associates provides the highest quality of care to their patient population, implementing the most advanced methods of Early Detection, Clinical Management, Prevention, Education, and Rehabilitation of the cardiovascular disease process. Now, with OnPage Priority Messaging, they will also make use of the latest communication technology to ensure that their MDs and Staff are always informed and immediately reachable in emergency situations. As a cardiovascular practice, messaging reliability […] Read more »

PwC Health Research Institute identified that the need for mobile security was one of the top ten issues hospitals will face in 2013. The report also found that 69% of the consumers surveyed said they were concerned about the privacy of their medical information if providers accessed it through their mobile devices. The rise in mHealth over the years has given tremendous growth to Hospitals and Healthcare organizations worldwide. With this advancement, comes the concern of privacy and security for patient health information. The ability to use smartphones has opened a lot of doors for hospital communication, however the organizations using this technology must not succumb to any applications or solutions that are not secure, and not HIPAA compliant. Healthcare organizations can turn toward OnPage Priority Messaging for their communication needs. OnPage is a secure, HIPAA compliant application that works on iOS, Android and Blackberry Devices. The OnPage pager app turns […] Read more »

This past weekend I attended the Fraunhofer awards ceremony for the prestigious 2013 Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize for Science and Innovation in Hannover, Germany. The Prizes were given to four technology groups from different institutes around the world, working in different fields but with the same theme: developing new technologies that enhance Efficiency. As a spectator listening to the different group presentations (with a translator), it became very clear to me that indeed Efficiency is the word of the future! Efficiency is the goal! I recalled a conversation I had the prior week with the CIO of a large healthcare plan in Boston to whom I introduced our OnPage solution for Pager replacement on Smartphones. He said that based on their budget for 2014, they may need to cut some people, but still carry the same load. Essentially be more efficient! Being efficient is facilitated by the use of new […] Read more »

OnPage announced today that a leading University Medical Center has chosen OnPage as their pager replacement application for their cardiology surgery department. OnPage will enable this physician-led medical center to eliminate their costly and outdated pager devices by combining the benefits of pagers, SMS, and email into one easy to use, secure smartphone application. The university health center is a non-profit, medical center that focuses on Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, and Cardiology. With on-site medical support services, a pharmacy, diagnostic imaging suite, endoscopy suite and a full laboratory, the Center offers cutting-edge medical care to its local community and beyond. Wide-spread deployment of OnPage across all other departments is anticipated in the near future. Initially, the Center’s Cardiology Department will enjoy many benefits of using the OnPage solution, including the ability to communicate immediately and securely with its cardiologists, through both cell service and WI-FI, send continuous paging […] Read more »

To Read The Entire Press Release Click Here An Ivy League medical center can now communicate faster and more efficiently with secure, HIPAA compliant priority messaging without having to carry outdated pagers. Onset Technology, leader in secure mobile priority messaging, creator of OnPage announced today that a leading University Medical Center has chosen OnPage as their pager replacement application for their cardiology surgery department. OnPage will enable this physician-led medical center to eliminate their costly and outdated pager devices by combining the benefits of pagers, SMS, and email into one easy to use, secure smartphone application. The university health center is a non-profit, medical center that focuses on Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, and Cardiology. With on-site medical support services, a pharmacy, diagnostic imaging suite, endoscopy suite and a full laboratory, the Center offers cutting-edge medical care to its local community and beyond. Wide-spread deployment of OnPage across all […] Read more »

One of the Largest Private Medical Centers in the Country Eliminates Outdated, Costly Pager Technology by Embracing Secure Assured Messaging with OnPage Business Situation Dave Cote, Manager of Telecom & Network Engineering For Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center was looking for an inexpensive, secure and reliable pager replacement for over 2,000 pagers. Solution OnPage provided Saint Francis with HIPAA compliance, delivery confirmation notifications, elimination of monthly fees and consolidation of their physicians multiple devices, Products OnPage Benefits Saint Francis is now able to: •eliminate their monthly fees. •relieve their physicians of carrying around an extra device. •enjoy a 100% reliability rate for hospital messages •ensure delivery and confirmation of messages •know that the right message gets to the right person at the right time. “With OnPage, our hospital and its call center have received highest level of reliability. I have not had one issue with operators sending messages, or […] Read more »

There are many reasons to choose OnPage as your virtual pager or pager replacement. To name a few, here are 7 reasons why you should switch to OnPage Priority Messaging today! 1) Consolidation of Devices– OnPage consolidates all of your devices into one- your smartphone. Don’t carry around an additional device like an old pager, just carry one! 2) Confirmation of Delivery & Read- OnPage lets you know when your message was delivered, sent, read and replied. With full audit trail capabilities you can keep track of all your messages and make sure that NO messages are missed. 3) Continuous Alert & Repeated Delivery- OnPage continuously attempts to deliver the message to your phone for up to 8 hours to ensure that critical messages get through. Our persistent alert sounds just like a pager and is impossible to miss. 4) Convenience- With full reply capabilities, pre-defined response and the ability to create groups and […] Read more »

Check out this cool Enterprise Mobility Infographic posted by xcubelabs! Key Highlights: 67% of CIOS and other IT professionals will believe mobility will impact their business as much as or more than the internet did in the 1990s! The #1 Major Business Benefit for driving mobile computing is Increased Efficiency. 85% of more than 130 Hospitals surveyed support BYOD for physicians and staff. 70% of organizations are already using or planning to use custom mobile application Please follow and like us: Read more »

Forecasting for mobile health applications is looking good. According to ABI Research, the mobile health applications market is predicted to grow to $400 million as 2016 approaches. In 2010 the market reached $120 million, so looking forward this research suggests that the market could actually quadruple in size in 2016. A growth this tremendous will mean big opportunities for application developers, technology vendors and healthcare practices that will start to see more of a presence of mobile apps in their own organizations. Alongside ABI’s research, Juniper Research also released its own study that depicts mHealth apps will reach 142 million downloads around the world in 2016. Contrast to ABI’s research, Juniper expects the download rate of the mHealth apps to grow at twice the rate of revenues. They predict more than a billion downloads occurring annually by the year 2016. With these new forecasts the expectations for the mobile app […] Read more »

It’s no surprise mobile apps and devices are transforming healthcare as we speak. Let’s take a look at the reasons why they are transforming the Healthcare industry 1. Access to Care In Rural Areas In rural communities where help may be at a minimum, some health application can help patients manage their own treatments. 2. Improved Patient Engagement There are a lot of reasons why patients may not want to access the care they should be getting. With some health applications, now patients can be notified of certain data that would have proved to be difficult to maintain before. 3. Logistics Health applications not only play a role with patient engagement, but company logistics as well. Minimize downtime and shortages with a pager replacement apps such as OnPage. 4. Finance There are some health financing applications on the market that can help to reduce cost of care. 5. Scope for […] Read more »

OnPage™ announced today that Boston Children’s Hospital, ranked number one pediatric hospital in the country by U.S. News and World Report, has chosen OnPage Priority Messaging to replace its traditional pagers. The dedicated paging devices carried by physicians everywhere will no longer be necessary as their functionality is integrated into their smartphones. Boston Children’s hospital will enjoy many benefits using the OnPage service, including the ability to communicate immediately and securely with its doctors through both cell service and WI-FI, send continuous paging alerts until message receipt, receive actual read acknowledgement automatically when a doctors read their messages, create and manage groups and escalation groups through the OnPage Console, keep a log of the entire communication chain for traceability, and all with HIPAA-compliant encryption for security. Furthermore, since OnPage runs on the most popular smartphones, there is no longer the need for the doctors to carry an additional pager device. […] Read more »

To Read The entire Press Release Click Here Doctors can now stay in touch at all times with secure, HIPPA-compliant priority messaging without carrying a traditional pager device WALTHAM, Mass. –January 22, 2013 —Onset Technology, creator of OnPage™ Priority Messaging, announced today that Boston Children’s Hospital, ranked number one pediatric hospital in the country by U.S. News and World Report, has chosen OnPage Priority Messaging to replace its traditional pagers. The dedicated paging devices carried by physicians everywhere will no longer be necessary as their functionality is integrated into their smartphones. “Using OnPage, this progressive, forward thinking hospital is now bringing the same level of innovation to address its communication needs as it did to medical care for over a century” says Judit Sharon, CEO of Onset Technology. Traditional pagers are used for alpha-numeric 240 character-max one way communication. Pages sent to traditional pagers require the physician to call […] Read more »

Recently, a forward-looking health foundation has chosen OnPage’s Secure Priority Messaging system to enhance its high-priority communication processes. The Foundation will utilize OnPage within its IT department to support immediate communication needs and to reduce server downtime. Based on its success with OnPage thus far, the Foundation is preparing to deploy OnPage Priority Messaging to its physicians and other essential medical and administrative staff. To Read The Entire Press Release Click Here Please follow and like us: Read more »

A recent study completed by KLAS Research shows that health care providers are concerned about security and safety in the ever increasing BYOD mobile healthcare environment. KLAS surveyed 105 CIOs, IT specialists, and physicians to complete their study. They found that 70 percent of physicians use mobile devices to access sensitive information including electronic health records. Even more surprising was that out of the people surveyed, 94% were using Apple products over Android or Blackberry. Apple has become a staple in modern technology and many professions are finding uses for Apple products outside of their normal capabilities. While Apple products and other Smartphone’s are impressive, they don’t provide the necessary security features that physicians need for communication. “With the increased use of personal mobile devices in healthcare becoming more prevalent, providers are very concerned about controlling what data is accessed, where it is stored, and how the data can be […] Read more »

The iPad continues to be an impressive tool that has vastly improved the technological efforts in various fields especially healthcare. Recently two papers presented at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) annual symposium in Chicago suggested that the iPad is a very popular tool for physicians. In fact physicians even stated that they would not use the Electronic Medical Records system unless they could access it on iPads. With the number of Doctors in the workforce decreasing, doctors are feeling the pressure to be more efficient at work and are certain that iPads are the answer. In fact, 85 percent of emergency physicians interviewed already owned an iPad. The general themes that surfaced from these papers were that physicians expected iPads to improve their interaction with patients, make their workflow smoother, and improve communication. When the average physician-patient appointment time is less than 8 minutes, it makes sense that doctors […] Read more »

Veronis Suhler Stevenson’s, a global capital private investment firm, recently reported that spending within the communications industry increased 4.4 percent to $1.129 trillion in 2011, despite the significant economic turmoil of this time. The report also states that spending is projected to rise another 5.2 percent this year, reaching $1.189 trillion! According to the report digital spending has been a “driving force of growth across all of its sectors, segments and sub-segments.” With the communication industry growing so rapidly and causing many businesses to experience significant growth as well, its time clinics and hospitals look into their communication systems. Many hospitals haven’t improved their communications systems since activating their traditional pager systems, which are now out of date technology. It’s fascinating that hospitals are so far behind the curve with communications when they are in an industry that relies very heavily on safe and reliable communication efforts. With a potential […] Read more »

IT professionals using monitoring services such as Solarwinds know how important it is to receive CRITICAL ALERTs in a timely fashion. With your Solarwinds alerts being sent via SMS or email you not only run the risk of missing an alert but you’re also forced to check your phone every time you get any email or SMS, even at night! With the average professional receiving around 150 text messages and emails a day, an alert could easily get lost among the clutter of unimportant messages. OnPage, a virtual pager application for Smartphone’s, relieves these problems through a few essential features. First, OnPage will continuously alert you until acknowledged with a unique tone so you know without a doubt that you have received a Solarwinds alert. Second, OnPage provides its users with a dedicated inbox for critical alerts so you don’t have to sort through your emails. Third, OnPage will override […] Read more »

Has your hospital or clinic made the switch from paper to digital yet? If not, it might be about time. According to the team at Rock Health, a non-profit foundation focused on Healthcare and Technology, more than $1 billion has been invested in digital health startups during 2012. The non-profit foundation recently published a report on digital health investments in the United States and the statistics, detailed below, are quite surprising! According to the source there has been $1.1 billion in investment dollars injected into digital health startups this year, up from the $626 million in 2011. Rock Health remarked that this is a 70 percent increase in investment money and an 84 percent increase in deals! That is a massive increase statistically and these staggering numbers should encourage Healthcare facilities to support new digital health startups. In fact, healthcare technology is advancing at such a rapid rate; even new […] Read more »

A leader in specialty coffee and coffee makers has recently turned to OnPage for their primary communication needs within their IT department. The well-known coffee company will use OnPage’s secure, fault-tolerant priority messaging application to enhance communication reliability and monitoring of their servers. The coffee company provides award-winning coffee and innovative brewing technology to a variety of restaurants and stores within the United States. Having relied on traditional pager technology in the past, they experienced poor pager coverage and missed messages due to their mountainous surroundings. After deploying the OnPage application throughout the company, their IT department has entrusted OnPage as a disaster recovery solution for email and server monitoring. To read the entire Press Release Click Here. Please follow and like us: Read more »

According to the new Cybercitizen Health® U.S. 2012 by Manhattan Research, mobile and tablet health activity are continuing to grow. More than 75 million adults in the US are currently using their mobile phones or tablets to gain information on health related issues, which is up from 61 million as of last year. “Growing ownership of connected devices and the access to digital health tools and information they provide is helping to drive the broader shift from intermittent to continuous care,” Monique Levy, Vice President of Research at Manhattan Research, stated. “This trend shows vast potential for changing key dynamics of healthcare delivery, including patient engagement, provider involvement, and how preventive care is incentivized.” As Levy stated above, it is important for both physicians and patients alike to notice the enormous growing trend for mobile health tools. These tools could change the dynamics of communication and engagement between health providers […] Read more »

It is no secret that some of the hardest working professionals in today’s world are physicians. With an increase in patient visits, doctors are starting to feel the burden of longer hours and have expressed that they want practical help accomplishing their day to day tasks. The practical help they are looking for isn’t in the form of a secretary either, in fact doctors are increasingly looking for solutions within the digital world. According to a survey by healthcare agency Publicis Touchpoint, doctors want efficient methods of communication that will allow them to spend more time with patients. Publicis surveyed 250 physicians from the Sermo database and found that in their daily work, 88% carry smart phones and 54% use iPads or other tablets. These doctors also expressed that they expect more mobile health messaging or priority messaging through these outlets. Not only do doctors want to communicate digitally with […] Read more »

OnPage is honored to have the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) trust in them for their critical communication needs. MEMA provides the Commonwealth of Massachusetts valuable leadership during emergencies by coordinating with local, state and Federal governments to ensure a cohesive response. The Operations Division of MEMA maintains and operates the state Emergency Operations Center (EOC), monitoring emergencies statewide through the Communications Unit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and serves as the command and control center for the Commonwealth. MEMA chose OnPage due to it’s security features, trace-ability and ability to communicate with different types of devices. OnPage will ultimately allow MEMA’s staff to reliably communicate and share information during emergencies as well as save valuable time when dealing with response operations. To read the entire press release click here. Please follow and like us: Read more »

With September in full swing, children, teenagers, and college students are finding themselves back in school, while parents start to prepare for the hectic weeks and months ahead. As a parent, trying to juggle multiple school schedules and activities is not only exhausting but also worrisome. When you have to coordinate these chaotic schedules you run the risk that something might not go as planned; school is let out early, soccer practice is cancelled, or your babysitter is running late. If one of these situations occurs you might get a phone call, email, or text informing you, but the chances that you will miss the message is always a risk you have to take and when it comes to child safety taking risks is a not an option. OnPage allows for parents to take that risk out of their lives by knowing that they can always be reached. OnPage […] Read more »

The new Web Management Console was released on September 9th, 2012. The new console ensures delivery of priority messages to the right people, while providing a new level of flexibility in organizing and tracking priority communications. In the new Web Management Console, users will have access to new features and options that will enhance their paging experience. One game changer is the creation of escalation pathways which allows for a message to be sent to a succession of people and if that message is not read by the intended recipient within a predetermined time period it will then send to the next. Other game changing features includes the ability to administer roles and permissions so each administrator can have only the access they need. Retention policies is another feature that will allow enterprises to comply with regulations via automatic export of all their messages onto their own servers and permanently removing them from the […] Read more »

Lee County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) relies on OnPage for immediate response Onset Technology, the leader in Mobile priority messaging, announced today that Lee County Southwest Florida EMS has chosen its OnPage service to support its staff. Lee County EMS is a Florida certified ground and rotor-wing Advanced Life Support Provider. With a mission of providing the highest quality out-of-hospital emergency medical care and transportation, their highly trained professionals use the best technology to meet the needs of those who require assistance. OnPage will help them achieve this critical mission day in and day out by ensuring reliable and auditable communication under all circumstances. “We have established a new unit to support our staff, and wanted the latest technology to ensure access to this unit at all times,” says Deputy Chief Warren Panem. “Traditional pagers were not an option for us because the coverage is too spotty and carrying an […] Read more »

OnPage Priority Messaging Celebrates its First Year Anniversary today, July 19, 2012. Since its introduction of OnPage a year ago, OnPage has managed to release the application to all three major Smartphone platforms, including its latest release to the Android market in June 2012. The integration onto all the major smartphone platforms has allowed IT shops, hospitals, emergency services, media, and other organizations to consolidate all their communications onto one preferred device. In its first year alone, OnPage has established itself as the premier pager replacement and compliant messaging system that ensures immediate, secure and acknowledged delivery of high priority messages. In addition, OnPage has also become an essential secure messaging application for over 1,000 organizations including healthcare, emergency services, information technology, financial institutions, EMS, and government agencies. OnPage’s growth has been driven by the ever-increasing need for secure communication that must reach its intended recipients under all circumstances, while providing an […] Read more »

OnPage Priority Messaging Celebrates its first year anniversary, achieving tremendous customer growth, new product releases, and continuing integration. Waltham, Massachusetts- July 19 2012 Onset Technology, the creator of OnPage announced today that its popular, secure priority messaging and pager app for iPhone, Blackberry and Android has completed a better-than-expected first year since its introduction in July of 2011. In its first year, OnPage has become an essential secure messaging application for over 1,000 organizations including healthcare, emergency services, information technology, financial institutions, EMS, and government agencies. OnPage’s growth has been driven by the ever-increasing need for secure communication that must reach its intended recipients under all circumstances, while providing an auditable communication trail to the sender. Since its introduction of OnPage a year ago, Onset has managed to release the application to all three major smartphone platforms, including its latest release to the Android market in June 2012. The integration onto all […] Read more »

WALTHAM, Mass. (PRWEB) July 11, 2012 Onset Technology, the creator of OnPage™, released today the latest version of its secure priority messaging and pager app for Blackberry, increasing reliability for its customers. After a couple of push failures at Blackberry RIM back in February and April of 2012, OnPage decided to create a redundant solution that would decrease downtime and outages for its customers in the future. “RIM’s push services are generally very reliable” says Judit Sharon, CEO and President of Onset Technology. “However, we have to keep our customers’ best interest in mind as they rely on us to deliver their critical messages under any circumstances, including the rare occasion of an outage in the RIM Push. We explored a couple different ways of achieving message redundancy. However, being a HIPAA compliant service, the only viable option was to build a poller mechanism similar to our Android client” In […] Read more »

OnPage is now less dependent on RIM to push notifications. OnPage’s new update for Blackberry OS ensures that users will get their messages even when the RIM Push service is down by utilizing new client poller mechanism. After a couple of push failures at Blackberry RIM back in February and April of 2012, OnPage decided to create a redundant solution that would decrease downtime and outages for its customers in the future. “RIM’s push services are generally very reliable” says Judit Sharon, CEO and President of Onset Technology. “However, we have to keep our customers’ best interest in mind as they rely on us to deliver their critical messages under any circumstances, including the rare occasion of an outage in the RIM Push. We explored a couple different ways of achieving message redundancy. However, being a HIPAA compliant service, the only viable option was to build a poller mechanism similar […] Read more »

Since the early 2000s, text messaging has been a mainstream communication. Primarily used for its ease of convenience and efficiency, text messaging has branched out from being a personal form of communication to an enterprise wide form of communication. Lately for businesses, the use of text messaging has come under scrutiny due to policies and regulations that it does not adhere to. The healthcare industry is currently aware of this scrutiny as it has been brought up by JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.) JCAHO recently weighed in on the issue of physician and licensed independent practitioners using text messages to transmit orders for patients, hospitals or any other healthcare setting. JCAHO stated that the use of text messaging in healthcare environments is unacceptable due to its violations of the HIPAA Security and Privacy regulations that every healthcare professional is expected to adhere to. These strict HIPAA guidelines include […] Read more »

Total Connections now uses OnPage to help its clients comply with federal security guidelines for healthcare, EMT, and law enforcement clients Waltham, MA (PRWEB) May 08, 2012 Many healthcare, EMT, and law enforcement organizations are violating federal privacy laws without even knowing it. The reason: They’re sending emergency text messages using insecure communications technology, such as SMS and email. The consequence: Every violation of privacy laws, such as HIPAA, can result in significant fines. That’s why Total Connections, Framingham, Mass., a leading call center and medical answering service serving the healthcare, EMT, and law enforcement industries, chose OnPage for secure assured messaging to meet security requirements. That, plus significant cost savings. “OnPage gives us the reliability, security, and intensity of a traditional pager, without the high infrastructure, hardware acquisition, monthly services costs, or need to carry another device,” says Bill Campbell, President and Founder. “But most importantly, messages sent with OnPage are […] Read more »

Using Email and SMS alerts for network monitoring such as Nagios, Zabbix or Solarwinds has been the practice since the early 90’s. But in an era of Smartphone in which we get thousands of email messages, IT experts ask themselves: “Is email still the right alert medium? Would I now stare at my inbox, each time I get an email, waiting for that critical email? Is SMS the right alert? Will it draw my attention?” Alerting is a crucial part of your system monitoring. A system monitoring without a conspicuous alert when something is amiss is like getting a Pizza delivered to your building but not knowing when, so unless you sit there by the lobby waiting for that Pizza, by the time you find the Pizza it’s stale and cold. OnPage, a virtual pager app for your iPhone , BlackBerry, and Android smartphones. OnPage cuts through the clutter on your smartphone to deliver those critical alerts immediately. You can set […] Read more »

National disasters can strike with our without notice. Given recent events with the Virginia centered earthquake and hurricane Irene, no one is more keenly aware of this than residents, businesses and agencies residing and doing business along the US Eastern seaboard. From the Capitol Region on up through New York and even points further north, the country experienced multiple emergency situations. We thank our Federal Agencies for their preparedness, poise and response. In grave situations such as these, it’s vital that Federal employees have a clear channel of communications with managers, coworkers and team members to navigate through the various challenges and emergencies that arise. One key way to achieve this is by tapping into their organization’s mobile deployment. Mobile connection ensures messaging continuity with uninterrupted communication and access to critical information (BC/COOP). Onset Technology is used by a considerable number of Federal Government Agencies. Those agencies depend on […] Read more »

It’s a small pager world and it keeps getting smaller. Recently, the Illinois Department of Central Management Services BCCS (Bureau of Communication and Computer Services) in their Telecommunications Bulletin, announced the decommissioning of telecommunication towers which provided pager services for six of their local cities and towns. The Bulletin also reported that another four cities may also be out of service in coming months. This news follows two previous pager service discontinuation bulletins in August Bulletin and October Bulletin of last year for yet two other Illinois cities. The trend is serious news for the state, which anticipates the decommissioning trend to continue. So what is causing the paging service providers to terminate such critical messaging coverage to area cities? The answer may just come down to dollars and cents. It’s no secret that the traditional paging industry is currently facing some serious challenges. The original telephone based pager […] Read more »

Thousands of volunteers Firefighters and other first responders may finally be getting compensation for their selfless and heroic efforts. On July 11, 2011 New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey introduced the Supporting Emergency Responders Volunteer Efforts (SERVE) Act. According to New York’s WBNG News, “The SERVE Act would provide volunteer firefighters and emergency service personnel with a $1,000 annual tax credit. The brave volunteers who risk their own lives to save the lives of others deserve our support. In short, the SERVE Act says thank you.” Volunteers often incur personal expenses in order to be a part of their community’s first responder teams. It’s not uncommon that they pay for their own pager service and pager hardware to be ‘on call’ when disaster strikes. As Fire Chief Bob Franklin of Arkansas Northeast Saline County Volunteer Fire and Rescue told Today’s KTHV “They are there in a minute’s notice. Everyone wears […] Read more »

Do you still use a pager? If you answered yes, you’re not alone. Many hospital, healthcare and emergency response workers still own and use pagers as part of their daily operations. Pagers widespread but falling out of favor Hospitals routinely use pagers to alert physicians, respiratory therapists, and other important staff regarding when and where they’re needed in the hospital. Firefighters too, especially volunteer staff, regularly employ pagers to receive priority messages so they can respond to calls in their local communities. Although still widespread, not every one is happy about still having to use pagers. Many users often cite serious concerns such as limited functionality, poor coverage, aging infrastructure and a dwindling number of options when it comes to pager service providers. They feel trapped into using obsolete pager technology when their own personal devices offer far superior service. Smartphones begin replacing pagers The need for priority messaging […] Read more »

It’s here! It’s here! The official release of OnPage is here, and we’re eager to tell you about it! Download the app for FREE now at either the Apple App Store or BlackBerry App World and use it FREE for a 30 day trial. As many of you know, OnPage, our smartphone pager application has been in Beta version since our launch just a few short months ago in April, 2011. Since our initial application launch, we’ve had incredible success. Thousands of Beta users downloaded and used OnPage for free and have been giving us some great feedback on how to improve our iPhone®, iPad®, and BlackBerry® pager application. Maybe you’re one of our many Beta subscribers who helped us by sharing your experience and opinions. If so, we heard you, we thank you and to show our appreciation, we’ve incorporated the best of those suggestions into our official […] Read more »

“Healthcare in America is broken”. At least that’s what many politicians tell us, but when it comes to healthcare IT, well that doesn’t appear to be broken at all. As a developer of replacement technology for paging communication systems, OnPage sees healthcare IT as a self-healing system with high-technology entrepreneurs, cracker-jack software developers and visionary investors pioneering the next wave of healthcare advancements. According to a new study by RNCOS and reported in a blog post by MobileStorm, Healthcare IT spending will reach $40 billion dollars by the end of 2011. In fact, it’s growing at an astounding annual rate of 24%. Those numbers are nothing to sneeze at (pun intended). They’re impressive for any industry. Healthcare workers too, are eager to incorporate new technology into their daily work routines to improve provider-to-patient as well as internal provider communications, facility efficiency, and overall care given to the patients. Estimates […] Read more »

OnPage™, a first-of-a-kind, hosted global paging & priority messaging service is now available for iPhone® iPad® and Blackberry® Smartphones. OnPage is the next generation of paging technology, blending the ease of use and high functionality of Smartphones with the reliability of a hosted paging service. It makes traditional paging devices obsolete and replaces aging pager devices while adding powerful capabilities like delivery and read notifications as well as reply functions. Please follow and like us: Read more »